The Definitive Rob Ford Timeline

In May, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was alleged to be smoking crack be on a videotape held for ransom. Six months later -- and more alleged drug use and ties to the criminal underworld -- Ford is still the Mayor of Toronto. Here's his timeline.

"It would be a compliment at this point to call the government of Toronto a shambles. Almost the entirety of the mayor's staff has resigned. He is refusing to leave. His brother Doug Ford, his right-hand man and a councillor himself, is refusing to leave… And the story is not humiliating to Toronto, no matter what they say. Quite the opposite: The craziness is a sign that the city is growing up."

"The city that I live in just blew up. Toronto's police chief, Bill Blair, just held a press conference in which he declared that the police have obtained a video of the mayor smoking crack… Whether he goes or not, either way, I now officially live in a city with a crack-smoking mayor."

"That's it? That's what I've been waiting around for? After calling everyone liars? After calling the city journalists "maggots"? After publicly denying it for months? After calling for the police chief to step down? After the break-in? After the friend charged with extortion? Not even a proper press conference just some run in in the hall? And you're blaming alcohol? You're blaming "a drunken stupor"? That's your idea of an excuse? Do you think we're living in the nineteenth century? And you're not going to take a leave even?

Also, if you're going to make a public apology, wear a decent fking tie."

"Honor is conspicuously missing from the spectacle of Rob Ford's pseudo-collapse this week. Comparisons with the Wire and with Breaking Bad have come fast and furious, but the truth is the Fords cannot be compared with those criminals. They're nowhere near as decent. Walter White, in the end, murdered and killed but he stayed true to his own sense of values, distorted though they may have been. He retained at least his self-respect. Omar on the Wire said it best: "A man must have a code." Not the Fords. The Fords disdain honor."

"Rob Ford has finally blown it. I know that, a few days ago, I claimed he may have invented a whole new mechanism for surviving scandal. But yesterday was different. Yesterday he talked about eating his wife's pussy."

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